80 Arizona Quotes

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Famous Arizona Quotes

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. — Jane D. Hull

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name. — John Fante

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame. — Zack de la Rocha

Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens. — Tom McCall

The Big Cactus. I will stick you. — Shaquille O'Neal

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth. — Davy Crockett

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. — Campbell Scott

The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck. — Shaquille O'Neal

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO. — Snoop Dogg

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. — Maynard James Keenan

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus — Lee Trevino

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town! — John Fante

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Short Arizona Quotes

  • Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams
  • I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. — Dennis Farina
  • Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. — Jan Brewer
  • You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard
  • The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations. — Janet Napolitano
  • Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. — Cecilia Bartoli
  • I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer. — Jane D. Hull
  • Arizona has always been anti-black. — Paul Mooney
  • Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot. — Greg Proops
  • Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. — Jane D. Hull

Tucson Quotes

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. — Kate Walsh

Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote. — Barack Obama

The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well. — Frank Luntz

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed. — Wayne LaPierre

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. — Stephen Vincent Benet

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country. — Erika Slezak

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige. — Max Cannon

You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets — Bob Goalby

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school. — Neko Case

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it. — Gary McCord

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More Arizona Quotes

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. — George Will

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan. — John Shadegg

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. — Jane D. Hull

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. — George Strait

So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue. — Vicente Fox

I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. — Bill Richardson

When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving? — Wanda Sykes

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. — Donald C. Peattie

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona — Rick Renzi

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects. — Janet Napolitano

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do. — Blake Shelton

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project. — Janet Napolitano

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. — Theodore Roosevelt

I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great. — Graham Yost

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. — Robert Benchley

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003. — J. D. Hayworth

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation — Mother Jones

I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction. — Jan Brewer

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them. — Jane D. Hull

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state. — Rick Renzi

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo. — P. G. Wodehouse

The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers. — Brenda Peterson

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. — Mona Charen

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble. — Edward Abbey

I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey number retired was the ultimate compliment. — Jennie Finch

This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the only instinct to retain power is to have education favor you. You have this Mexican American program that helps kids take ownership of their race and their power. It threatens the political powers that are in place. — Matt de la Pena

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world. — Chelsea Kane

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. — Jan Brewer

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't. — F. Burton Howard

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' — Jim Kolbe

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. — Harry S. Truman

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget. — Jane D. Hull

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before. — Jane D. Hull

The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile. — Betsy King

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County. — Edward Abbey

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? — Edward Abbey

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona. — Mitt Romney

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